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Subject: Re: GPUs and CUDA
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On Jul 12, 5:26=A0am, "ldries46" <bertus.dr...@planet.nl> wrote:
> |"Rego, P." =A0schreef in berichtnews:783efc18-a581-4ae2-bde4-04afa3568ff=
8@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com...
> |
> |>This would allow something like
> |> Pragma CUDA( Ralph );
> |>to indicate that the subprogram "Ralph" is to be run on the GPUs; and
> |>it would also allow non-CUDA enabled compilers to compile the source
> |>regardless of whether or not their compiler actually knows about CUDA.
> |
> |That's the idea. It would be very good.
>
> At this moment I don't know if this is a good idea, because CUDA is a
> language developped only for NVidia GPU's. One of the purposes of Ada I
> think is that a program can always be used on another computer with only =
the
> a simple recompilation. I would like a Pragma GPU( Ralph ) that can check
> which GPU is used and if that GPU has a CUDA like environment available.
>
> L. Dries

True; I was thinking more on the side of "what NVidia should have
done" in making their compiler.
The CUDA compiler is, after all, a a C-compiler with a bunch of
[nasty] add-ons.